Last Updated on November 25, 2013
Elizabeth Hanson, Eurocarers Board member, presented a series of best practices in a webinar in the framework of the “Spotlights on Improving Efficiency in Cancer Care” series, organized by SPCC (Sharing Progress in Cancer Care). This series is held within…
The Swedish Family Care Competence Centre (Nationellt kompetenscentrum anhöriga, Nka) leads a project about coordinator support for parents of children with disabilities. The project aims to test coordinator support within a Swedish context and see what factors influence the effect…
The InCARE survey is open for a few more weeks only. The aim of this survey is to understand how people view care for older people with support needs and how they assess long-term care systems. It is available in…
Cuidadores Portugal, our member from Portugal, won a prize given by TEVA in Champalimaud foundation as one of the best practices with their young carers project. This project aims to support 100 young carers giving them educational, psychological support and…
Conversations with Carers explores the lived experience of paid and unpaid carers through a series of podcasts and articles, which have also inspired 5 short dance films performed by disabled and non-disabled artists, some of who are also carers. Conversations…
On the 17th of November, the European Commission published an implementation roadmap and progress indicators for Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan to monitor developments on the ten flagship initiatives as well as its other actions. The roadmap will undergo regular review…
Our colleagues from COMIP, an Italian association helping children of mentally ill parents, under the leadership of Stefania Buoni, member of the Eurocarers Young Carers Working group, organised a screening of the movie King of Atlantis in order to raise…
The AppForDem project aimed to create a set of open and multilingual educational resources on dementia, with the purpose of offering digital resources that support formal and informal carers in caring for people with dementia. According to the training curriculum…
The Swedish Family Care Competence Centre (Nationellt kompetenscentrum anhöriga, Nka), has for a number of years worked with Blended Learning Networks. A Blended Learning Network is a heterogenous community of practice – a method where people with a common interest…
A new report published by EPSU (European Federation of Public Service Unions) shows that, as the pandemic was at its peak, hundreds of thousands of care workers were abandoning the sector of long-term residential care . While COVID was hitting…
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